The Turkmen of Iraq, numbering approximately 2,855,000 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are described as a western Turkic people who played a significant role in the history of Central Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. The ancestors of Iraqi Turkmen were Oghuz Turkic peoples whose arrival in Iraq (Mesopotamia) began as early as the 7th century and can also be known as Turkmen, Iraqi Turkmen, Türkmanja, Türkmen. They are an Indigenous people, with Turkmen (Iraq) as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Turkic people cluster of the Turkic Peoples. Their primary religion is Sunni Islam. They primarily speak Azerbaijani, South.